How do we keep our kids from embracing the slacker life?
Over at HMS, Kevin Miller blogs a National Review Online article by John Derbyshire. Derbyshire discusses teenage children rejecting sports, school, their parents' values, their parents -- period.
Derbyshire points to the lure of a popular culture that glamorizes the bohemian life, in which it doesn't seem to take much hard work or talent to be rich and famous. (Just look at all those people who want to be the next American Idol.)
But is the glamour of pop culture the root of the problem? I have a cold today, and my head is swimming, so I'm not able to coherently suggest what else might be going on. Kevin mentiones an earlier Derbyshire column about fatherhood ("my children bore me so I delegate some of the child-rearing duties") that might provide a clue.
can't....form...sentences! I'll be curious to see what you think. I hope Greg Popcak comments on this, too.
